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Problems With Ambient Light

MuireanneMuireanne Posts: 82
edited December 1969 in The Commons

I'm not sure what went wrong but I haven't been able to use ambient lighting in Daz 4.7. AOA lights don't show up at all, I get a "file does not exist error." I've installed and reinstalled using DIM but nothing works. I was able to use them with no issue up to fairly recently.

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  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    Is it this one : http://www.daz3d.com/advanced-ambient-light

    I have it installed, and I don't have any problems loading it. It is stored in the Content Library pan under My DAZ 3D Library > Light Presets > Age of Armour > Advanced Ambient.

    It is installed to C:\Users\Public\Documents\My DAZ 3D Library\Light Presets\Age of Armour\Advanced Ambient.

    Is that the one you mean. Can you describe the error and how you get it?

  • MuireanneMuireanne Posts: 82
    edited March 2015

    That's the one and this is the error I'm getting. I think it went FUBAR when I downloaded Daz 4.8 (which I have removed) I figured it was just a problem with where it was installed. So I uninstalled and reinstalled ( using DIM) and it is still throwing up this error. I even tried a manual installation. nothing!

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  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    The figure two in brackets (2), and the yellow exclamation mark show that two versions of it are installed, at least in the database.

    You probably need to go to the drop-down menu in the Content Library pane, then select Content DB Maintenance then Remove Orphaned File References to fix it.

    Installing any version of DAZ Studio does not interfere with content that is already installed, so I doubt if installing the beta version would have caused the problem.

  • MuireanneMuireanne Posts: 82
    edited December 1969

    Okay, I tried that and unless there is a step I'm missing it didn't do anything.

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  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    I find that sometimes "Remove Orphaned References" doesn't get everything, but "Scan Known Directories For Files" does.

  • MuireanneMuireanne Posts: 82
    edited December 1969

    No, that didn't do anything either. I wish I knew what I did to mess everything up.

  • fixmypcmikefixmypcmike Posts: 19,583
    edited December 1969

    Export User Data if you haven't done it yet and you have custom categories/tags/metadata.
    Reset the database.
    Re-Import Metadata.

  • MuireanneMuireanne Posts: 82
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    Export User Data if you haven't done it yet and you have custom categories/tags/metadata.
    Reset the database.
    Re-Import Metadata.


    Sorry but how would I go, about doing that?

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    From the Content DB Maintenance window, in your posted image.

    Export User Data first (You really only need to do this if you have set up your own Categories, and want to save them, but it will do no harm anyway)

    Then reload the Content DB Maintenance window and Reset Database

    Then reload the Content DB Maintenance window again and Re-Import Metadata.

  • MuireanneMuireanne Posts: 82
    edited December 1969

    Thank you! fixmypcmike and JimmyC, that fixed my problem.

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